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Available for Pre-order Now! Silent Are the Dead

The second day in Mud Sawpole’s unexpected quest starts with a missing body that leads to confrontations with deadly snakes—some with rattlers and others on two legs. Both want her dead.

Praise for Silent Are the Dead:
"Silent Are the Dead is the story of one Kiowa storyteller lovingly told by another."
- J. A. Jance - New York Times Best Selling Author

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Silent Are The Dead

The second novel in the Mud Sawpole Mystery series from Mary Higgins Clark Award Finalist author, D. M. Rowell
Silent are the dead

“A thrilling and character-driven mystery, Silent Are the Dead is D.M. Rowell’s best yet…. I was hooked from page one.”
—Alex Segura, bestselling author of Secret Identity and Alter Ego

While back on tribal land, Mud Sawpole uncovers an illegal fracking operation underway that threatens the Kiowas’ ancestral homeland. But there’s an even greater threat: a local businessman involved in artifact thefts is murdered, and a respected tribe elder faces accusation of the crime. After being roped in by her cousin, Denny, they begin to investigate the death while also pursuing evidence to permanently stop frackers from destroying Kiowa land, water, and livelihoods.

When answers evade her, Mud heeds her grandfather’s and great-aunt’s words of wisdom and embraces Kiowa tribal customs to find the answers that she seeks. But her ceremonial sweat leads to a vision with answers wrapped in more questions.

Mud and Denny race against the clock to uncover the real killer and must face the knowledge that there may be a traitor—and a murderer—in their midst. It’s too late for one victim—and Mud may be next.

Don’t miss the second day of Mud Sawpole’s four-day spiritual quest!



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2023 Mary Higgins Clark Finalist, Never Name the Dead - Now Available in Paperback

Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Mae starts an unexpected spiritual quest when summoned back to the former Kiowa, Comanche, Apache Reservation of her childhood by her Kiowa grandfather. Upon arrival, she is thrown into a whirlwind of deceit, theft and murder. It takes a blend of Silicon Valley ingenuity and Native American spirituality to solve a murder—before time runs out.

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Accolades for Never Name the Dead

Editorial Reviews

“Rowell’s Never Name the Dead is an impressive debut, … Rowell brings notes of poetry to the dark tale of corruption.”
—CrimeReads

Never Name the Dead may join the ranks of Native American books along the veins of Tony Hillerman and Anne Hillerman's Leaphorn/Chee mysteries.”
—Midwest Book Review

Never Name the Dead weaves a tale of timely Native issues like fracking and poverty with a breathless mystery.”
—Buzzfeed

“[A] debut wrapped in Kiowa history, stories, and culture . . . Recommended for readers of David Heska Wanbli Weiden’s Winter Counts.”
—Library Journal

Click here to see the painting by C. E. Rowell mentioned in Never Name the Dead.

Download a Bookclub packet for Never Are the Dead (PDF).

Never Name The Dead - Available now at these locations

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Never Name the Dead

LARGE Print Edition Available at these Locations

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